A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Novelists never have to footnote.